Definition of "churlish" in Anglais

adjective

1. Of or pertaining to a serf, peasant, or rustic.

   • […] the eloquence and truth of his tribute stands in marked contrast to Kramer's churlish caricature of Kael as a happy pig wallowing in the dirt.

2. Rude, surly, ungracious.

3. Stingy or grudging.

4. (of soil) Difficult to till, lacking pliancy; unmanageable.

   • 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread, And force a churlish soil for scanty bread.